Rumor: Faster gaming laptops with GeForce RTX Super GPUs are coming

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Most of Nvidia's graphics cards built around the company's Turing GPU architecture have already been given "Super" refreshes, though only on the desktop. What about laptop GPUs? Rumors have been swirling about the same Super treatment heading to Nvidia's mobile lineup, and a new leak may reveal what kind of performance uplift they will bring.

The folks at PCGamesN claim to have gotten their mitts on an internal performance slide showing the relative performance of two upcoming mobile GPUs, the GeForce RTX 2080 Super and 2070 Super, compared to existing non-Super variants. If the slide is real, then Nvidia is claiming around a 50 percent improvement over the regular RTX 2070.

The slide looks legitimate, but we can't verify it at this time. The numbers are plausible based on what we've seen in the desktop arena with Nvidia's Super refreshes. There's nothing here that really raises our eyebrows.

Intel has not yet released its Comet Lake-H lineup, but it's also been the subject of a plethora of leaks. However, there are lower power Comet Lake-U and Comet Lake-Y processors already shipping in laptops, so that's not a red flag either.

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